Key facts

Year	1515	Wikidata P580 (start time)
Era	Early modern (1500–1799)	derived from year
Location	Italy	Natural Earth (modern borders)
Continent	Europe	Natural Earth
War / conflict	War of the League of Cambrai	Wikidata P361
Participants	Duchy of Milan, Kingdom of France, Old Swiss Confederacy, Republic of Venice	Wikidata P710
Coordinates	45.3667, 9.3167	Wikidata P625

About the battle

The Battle of Marignano, (or bataille de Marignan in French) which took place on 13–14 September 1515, near the town now called Melegnano, 16 km southeast of Milan, was the last major engagement of the War of the League of Cambrai. It pitted the French army, led by Francis I, newly crowned King of France, against the Old Swiss Confederacy. With the French were German landsknechts, and their late-arriving Venetian allies.

The battle resulted in a decisive French victory and the signing of the Treaty of Fribourg, known as the "Perpetual Peace" (Ewiger Frieden, Paix perpétuelle).

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